Day in Photos: July 31, 2012

Employee Tilly Shiner looks at a book in the aMAZEme labyrinth at The Southbank Centre in London. Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo used 250,000 books to create the maze which will be on display until August 25.

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Young women jump among sunflowers during the Sunflower Festival in Zama, Japan. More than half a million sunflowers will attract visitors until the middle of August at some venues in the city.

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Residents of the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya look among the debris of their homes after an accidental fire. The Dadaab camp is the largest refugee complex in the world where thousands of Somalis fleeing conflict and starvation have found shelter and are helped by aid agencies.

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Paramilitary policemen attend a training session in Hefei, China.

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Traffic comes to a stop at the Delhi-Gurgaon road on the outskirts of New Delhi, India. India’s energy crisis cascaded over half the country when three of its regional grids collapsed, leaving 620 million people without power in one of the world’s largest-ever blackouts.